host: bob biersack, senior center for responsive politics. you can also look to opensecrets.org frustration about the campaigns. thanks for your time. guest: my pleasure. host: next, a look at the battleground state of iowa with a senior political writer, michael over. and we will check in with the iowa democratic chairman sue dvorsky, to look at democratic strategy is in that battleground state. we will be right back. >> we have a pretty simple proposition here. you can either embrace the kind of approach that congresswoman wilson has embraced. she signed this pledged to support the cut, cap, and balance program. that is a tea party approach to balancing the budget. it has no new revenues even for the wealthiest of americans. it is so draconian that would require deep cuts in social security and medicare over time. or we can embrace a balanced approach. that's what i support. i think we can go back to the kind of tax rates we had under the clinton administration when the upper income earners were doing well and the entire economy was growing